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Biostatistics Notes

This document provides examples of descriptive and inferential statistics concepts. Descriptive statistics summarize and describe data, like finding averages and percentages from past studies. Inferential statistics are used to generalize from samples to populations through estimations, hypothesis testing, and predictions. Examples show descriptive statistics describing credit card APR averages and percentages of women investors. Inferential statistics examples include predictions about household automobile ownership and salary averages from surveys. The document also defines key concepts like population, sample, quantitative and qualitative data, discrete and continuous variables.

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Biostatistics Notes

This document provides examples of descriptive and inferential statistics concepts. Descriptive statistics summarize and describe data, like finding averages and percentages from past studies. Inferential statistics are used to generalize from samples to populations through estimations, hypothesis testing, and predictions. Examples show descriptive statistics describing credit card APR averages and percentages of women investors. Inferential statistics examples include predictions about household automobile ownership and salary averages from surveys. The document also defines key concepts like population, sample, quantitative and qualitative data, discrete and continuous variables.

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BIOSTATISTC NOTES
2022

Descriptive statistics consists of the Population consists of all subjects


collection, organization, summarization (human or otherwise) that are being
and presentation of data. studied.

From a past study it was found that the From a past study, it was found that 56%
APR of a certain credit card averaged of women are the primary investors in
12.83% - Descriptive their households. – Descriptive

A group of subjects selected from a Mrs. Boyd wants to find the average
population is a sample. height of all her students in her classes.
She decides to use the first 5 people who
It is predicted that the average number of walk in the door. Is this a good
automobiles each household owns will representative sample? – No
increase next year- Inferential
What would be the population in this
Inferential statistics consists of example?
generalizing from samples to populations, Surveyors in a mall choose shoppers to
performing estimations and hypothesis ask about products they prefer. - All
tests, determining relationships among shoppers in the mall
variables, and making predictions.
Sample is a part of a group being
A recent survey of 2000 adults having an surveyed.
MBA reported that the average salary is
more than P365,000 a year. – Population is the entire group of objects
Descriptive or individuals considered for a survey.

Which type of statistic is this? Using this Identify the Sample:


product will burn 74% more calories. – A restaurant wants to know if customers
Inferential buy dessert when they eat out. As people
leave the restaurant one evening, 20
A prediction has been made that the people are surveyed at random. Eight
chance that a person will be robbed in a people say they usually order dessert
certain city is 15%. – Inferential when they eat out. The restaurant
concluded that most customers do not
10% of college students are predicted to order dessert. – 20 customers
travel out the country during spring break.
– Inferential The manager of a book store surveys
people who buy mystery novels to see if
Two branches of statistics are inferential the store should expand its hours. What
and descriptive. is the population? - People who visit the
bookstore.
The Senior Citizens that live in Butuan
City have better memories than the ones What would be the sample in this
that live in Agusan del Sur – Inferential example?
Surveyors in a mall choose shoppers to
ask about products they prefer. - the
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shoppers who were asked their The number of balloons in a store –


preferences quantitative

A beverage company wanted to see if The type of pets a person owns –


people in the United States like their new qualitative
logo. Which choice BEST represents a
sample? - A selection of shoppers from What is Quantitative Data? - Consist of
different states. numerical measurements or counts.

The entire group studied. – population Identify the kind of variable in this
situation:
A school randomly chose ten English number of paper clips in mason jar on Mr.
teachers and asked them which type of Rhoades' desk – discrete
juice their students would prefer. Which
reason best shows why this sample is price of gasoline per gallon throughout
biased? - The sample didn't include American history –continuous
students.
The bug was 5 cm long. – Quantitative
The type of shoes - Qualitative Data
Which of the following variables is most
It is the science of collecting, organising, likely to be used as quantitative? –
analysing and interpreting data in order to google drive capacity
make decisions. – Statistics
What is data? - Information coming
The type of sports at the Olympics - from observations, counts,
Qualitative Data measurements or responses.

Mass of a cake. - quantitative The color of marbles in a jar - qualitative


continuous
What is Qualitative Data? - Consist of
Identify the kind of variable in this attributes, labels, or nonnumerical
situation: entries.
number of chairs in room 201 – discrete
Statistics are used in education,
A quantitative variable that can assume a science, government, and
countable number of values. – discrete mathematics
variable
Which of the following variables is most
Which of the following is an example of likely to be used as categorical? – flower
quantitative data? - A Person's Height color

Identify the kind of variable in this


situation:
length of time a football play lasts –
continuous

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